NEXUS Data Editor for Windows

[Roderic Page]

This is to announce that NDE (NEXUS Data Editor) for Windows is available
for downloading from

http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/NDE/nde.html

NDE (NEXUS Data Editor) is a program to create and edit NEXUS format data
files on computers running Microsoft Windows 95/NT 4.0. The main motivation
behind my writing the program was to provide an easy to use data editor
similar to that provided in the Macintosh program MacClade (please note
that NDE has NONE of the data or tree analysis features of MacClade). The
NEXUS format is becoming more widely used on PCs now that DOS and Windows
versions of PAUP* are available for testing (http://onyx.si.edu/PAUP/).

In addition to a spreadsheet data editor, NDE makes it easy to fully
annotate the data with both text and pictures, and to have lengthy
descriptive character and character state names. Character names and
comments can be exported by the program directly into a file readable by a
word processor, automating the production of character definitions for
publication. NDE can also output HTML. Although designed as a NEXUS file
editor, NDE also has limited support for other formats, including Hennig86
and DELTA.

NDE is in a VERY early stage of development, and there are numerous
limitations. In particular, the program will only handle NONMOLECULAR data
sets, such as morphology and behaviour. The progam recognises only subset
of the NEXUS format (full details are given on the program's Web site).

If you download the program please send me an email (r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk)
so I can keep you posted of bugs and new releases.


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Dr Roderic D. M. Page
Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, IBLS
Graham Kerr Building
University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, U.K.

Tel: (0141) 330 4778 Fax: (0141) 330 5971
r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html